Quote of the day

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

Umberto Eco

O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presagers of my speaking breast.

William Shakespeare

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.

Martin Tupper

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

Samuel Butler

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

Thomas Jefferson

There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing poetry.

Emily Dickinson

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.

Ernest Hemingway

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

James Russell Lowell

There are books...which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.